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It's a chance to see jousters in action, fencing demonstrations, costumed knights and maids and teeth pulled the old-fashioned way - without painkillers.

We're talking medieval times here.

If you're hankering to visit the days when knighthood was in flower, you can do so from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Florida Community College at Jacksonville's Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd.

This is the sixth time the campus has staged a free medieval and Renaissance fair.

Humanities professor Jenny Ohayon started the fair in 2000 as a way for students to relate to the Middle Ages.

"That first year we were only going to do it one time," Ohayon said. "But we got such a good reaction that everybody wanted me to do it again and again. We're trying to make this historically accurate and educational. It's not just for fun, though that's a big aspect."

Reenactors from the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Men of Menendez from St. Augustine will help bring the period alive. So will La Dolce Vita's costumed musicians, who will play authentic period instruments, and the What's In a Name troupe from St. Augustine performing Shakespeare.

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